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Re: Ask HN: How's the job hunt going? (For those laid off)

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Post by KennyBlanken »

VirusNewbie wrote: post #135
drdrey wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What did you do during these 3 months?

What do you mean? I had a job the entire time, and I interviewed at MSFT and NFLX in the meantime. Otherwise i would just periodically check in with my G recruiter trying to balance some urgency with politeness. I didn’t get an offer from NFLX but they came across extremely well, i’m very bullish on the company solely based on the culture and talent I met. The MSFT experience was the exact opposite!

I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but referring to companies by their stock tickers in casual conversation does not impress anyone.

Re: Ask HN: How's the job hunt going? (For those laid off)

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Post by medellin »

KronisLV wrote: post #108
300bps wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>But I'm looking at the job market and think it might be better to give it 4-6 months. I'm fascinated by this. How does one do this? Two options I can think of are being independently wealthy and being dependent on another. Are there other ways to accomplish being so comfortable with, "eh, gonna be unemployed another 4-6 months and see what happens"?

> I'm fascinated by this. How does one do this? Two options I can think of are being independently wealthy and being dependent on another. Are there other ways to accomplish being so comfortable with, "eh, gonna be unemployed another 4-6 months and see what happens"? In my case that'd be: - living in a relatively affordable country (Latvia), where rent and other expenses aren't too high - having an okay income by loc…

Honestly i think most devs can do this. The difference is in the US our tolerance for seeing our savings go down is super low. I can live for 3 years with my current savings(just cash with invested but non retirement funds it would be about 8) but i still don’t feel like i can take any time off.

Re: Ask HN: How's the job hunt going? (For those laid off)

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Post by valdiorn »

I've just started a new job, a startup hedge fund with friends and former colleagues, so not really that applicable to the question (but also, my god how nice it is to just get a call from someone you know and respect, get offered a job and not even have to interview for it :)

However, I've noticed that the LinkedIn spam is getting increasingly outrageous in their offers (I'm in quant finance in London). This surprised me given the market is supposedly cooling off with lots of free agent talent, but I'm getting multiple offers a day promising 300-500k (GBP) compensation, sometimes even fixed base comp! It sounds a bit too good to be true but the frequency of messages and the numbers in those messages have both been blowing up over the last 3-4 months.

Not sure what's driving this but it's definitely unusual given the market and location. I'd say it's about double the top range I've seen in previous years.

Re: Ask HN: How's the job hunt going? (For those laid off)

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Post by holografix »

manish_gill wrote: post #90

Since this thread is the most relevant - my partner has been struggling for a long time to get going into the field as a Data Analyst/BI analyst doing SQL, Tableau, Excel and (beginner) Python/Pandas. She has been hunting for junior positions or even internships with no luck so far. Here in the EU, either her career gap (due to covid + country change + taking time to upskill herself) gets in the way, or C-level Germa…

It might very well be her basic German holding her back.

Any chance of upskilling her quickly through some intensive German lessons over the Christmas break?

From memory the German market can be surprisingly insular in its use of German. Not as tough as the French, but close. Also, maybe she can work remotely for a Dutch company? If she speaks good English the Dutch don’t care at all.

Re: Ask HN: How's the job hunt going? (For those laid off)

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Post by gigatexal »

A friend of mine was doing an almost week long (thankfully paid) interview with Automatic for a senior data engineering position. These are the folks being Wordpress and Hey — the DHH company — anyway.

Long story short while he was working on tasks in this weird ass way to interview about half way into the week he gets a message saying the role had been closed. Suddenly. There was no inkling or hint that the role was tenantive.

Shortly before he he process to interview and maybe hire my friend there was some message or rumor that they were trying to scoop up laid off Twitter employees.

I dunno. It seems shady. Avoid Auromatic not for the politics but because it’s not well run at all.

Re: Ask HN: How's the job hunt going? (For those laid off)

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Post by briga »

sva_ wrote: post #79
kristopolous wrote: post #37

Let me show you the backdoor: Find a company whose open source projects you are interested in. Dive in and and start fixing things. Then if you really like it after a couple weeks start nudging around for a job. If you do good work they'll just give it to you, no bullshit funnel required. I like this method because you aren't just doing l33t coding exercises to work on some sight unseen codebase that makes you suicid…

This sounds like you're suggesting people work for free for the hope of potentially being hired by an employer. I think that is pretty pathetic.

I mean, even if they don’t get hired they’re still contributing to open-source. Seems like a good outcome either way

Re: Ask HN: How's the job hunt going? (For those laid off)

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Post by holografix »

throwaway20382 wrote: post #61

I have 15 years experience, run large production sites, our company sold for near a billion dollars to a foreign company recently, and they are doing layoffs based on "order by salary desc" . My days are numbered. I do SRE mainly, but I code all day and run teams. Company 1: Terrible over-engineered music firm (no users). Full 7 rounds, exams (which were easy shit), but "VP" ghosted me, he was a former twitter guy, s…

Multi hour take home exams are such a shit show. I haven’t done one in a very long time.

How clearly was the marking criteria or rubric communicated to you?

If you’re getting frustrated and have the financial capacity for it, maybe consider a break during December?

Re: Ask HN: How's the job hunt going? (For those laid off)

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Post by vogt »

echelon wrote: post #35

I know this may not be the correct thread for this, and hope it doesn't come across as not being empathetic: I'm paying $100/hr (negotiable) for skills in { Rust/Actix webdev, Unreal Engine plugin development, computer vision, audio processing, signal processing, ML }. These roles will convert to salary/equity later on, once the project outgrows my ability to self-fund. We're building a cloud-based AI film and music…

Pretty cool product. I don't have any of the skills you listed or anything, just wanted to say this looks neat. Also looks like something built by people very familiar with the space they're in, which is always a huge plus in my book when evaluating startups.

Re: Ask HN: How's the job hunt going? (For those laid off)

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Post by damienwebdev »

kristopolous wrote: post #37

Let me show you the backdoor: Find a company whose open source projects you are interested in. Dive in and and start fixing things. Then if you really like it after a couple weeks start nudging around for a job. If you do good work they'll just give it to you, no bullshit funnel required. I like this method because you aren't just doing l33t coding exercises to work on some sight unseen codebase that makes you suicid…

I actively hire this way.

Re: Ask HN: How's the job hunt going? (For those laid off)

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Post by heliodor »

oceanplexian wrote: post #40
throw1234651234 wrote: post #25

For those who did get laid off from F(/M)AANG, are you considering "lower" end positions or looking for comparable total comp at comparably sized, tech-focused companies? Just curious, as a flyover midwesterner, it seems like no one here is affected, nor are we getting any interviewees from FAANG into the pipeline suddenly.

There are a lot of FAANG-adjacent companies that offer competitive comp, Stripe, AirBNB, Pinterest, LinkedIn, etc. I left Amazon a year ago to work for one, most of my peers are AWS or Google engineers and the quality of life is much better. I interviewed at smaller companies but the main problem was they were out of touch with TC and unwilling to offer equity, and at least one place was kind of rude about it when I…

Equity is also where the downside is!
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